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THE BEASTS OF DANIEL,
CHAPTER SEVEN
The day of a
one-world government draws nigh. This government will not only be a political
power, but a religious one, as it will demand worship (Rev. 13:15).
The wild beast that ascends out of
the sea in Revelation 13:1 is the fourth, last and most terrible beast Daniel
described in chapter seven of his prophecy. We are accustomed to making these
beasts political powers. But there are more than four political powers in the
world. Yet there are only four major religions: Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam
and Christianity. All minor religions are offshoots of these. And remember, we
just discovered that the beast to come will demand worship.
Note how Daniel began describing
these four beasts: "Perceiving am I in my vision by night, and behold, four
winds of the heavens are rushing forth to the vast sea, and four monstrous
animals are coming up from the sea, diverse one from another. The eastern animal
is a lioness..." and then he goes on to describe three more monstrous
animals. The point I want to make is this: Daniel describes the lioness as the eastern
animal. ("Eastern" is a good translation of the Chaldee "qdmi."
The stem "qdm" is used in both Chaldee and Hebrew to denote
precedence and east.) The following three monstrous
animals, then, proceed in a westerly direction.
Now, dig your world atlas out of the
game closet and note that, geographically, the aforementioned four religions
move East to West, Buddhism being predominantly in Eastern Asia, Hinduism
in India, Islam in the Arab world and Christianity in Europe and the Americas.
The beasts of Daniel, chapter seven do the same. Coincidence? No. This is
further evidence that the beasts are religions.
Are you sitting down? Good. The
fourth, most western beast of Daniel's prophecy (the "wild beast" of
Revelation 13:1) is Christianity. Daniel describes her as having
"teeth of iron, claws of copper, devouring, pulverizing and stamping upon
the remainder with her feet" (Dn. 7:19). Who is armed to the hilt with
"teeth of iron" and "claws of copper?" (I presume you
watched the Gulf War.) Answer: the West. Who has the power to subject the world
under its so-called "Judeo-Christian" leadership? (I assume you
watched the Gulf War.) Answer: the West.
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